Landscape ArchitectureThaïsa Way
2015 The Garden Club of America/Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize Fellowship in Landscape Architecture
Thaïsa Way is an Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her project is entitled, “Drawing Histories of Landscape Architecture.” As a landscape historian, she will explore how the distinct practices of scholars, relying on words to articulate their research, and of landscape architects, who rely on drawing, intersect to frame narratives of the history of landscape architecture. Professor Way will use her research and the experience of immersion in other Fellows’ drawing, as well as her own, to draft a manuscript on the role of drawing as a challenge to contemporary narratives of landscape architectural history. Professor Way is the 61st Garden Club of America Rome Prize winner.
The Garden Club of America/Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize Fellowship in Landscape Architecture
The American Academy in Rome supports innovative artists, writers, and scholars living and working together in a dynamic international community. The Rome Prize Fellowship in Landscape Architecture, which includes geography, environmental design and planning, landscape and ecological urbanism, landscape history, sustainability, and ecological studies, provides American landscape architects with a special opportunity for advanced study, travel, and association with other fellows in Rome.
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